Stuart Hoddinott
Associate Director
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Fixing public services: Sticking with the status quo – implications of current spending plans
Labour’s implied spending plans won’t deliver the improved performance demanded by the public.
Fixing public services: Cross-cutting problems
In recent years, governments have repeatedly found it necessary to top up single-year budgets in response to poor performance.
Fixing public services: Local government
Severe funding shortfalls for local authorities mean spending on acute services, such as social care, is squeezing out other services.
Fixing public services: The NHS
Labour's NHS commitments are likely to require more spending. But recent spending increases have not generated commensurate performance improvements.
Fixing public services: Summary
Sticking to the status quo means most services are likely to be performing worse at the next election in 2028/29 than at the last election in 2019.
Fixing public services
The government's public services inheritance make its spending plans untenable.
General election 2024: New ministers appointed to Keir Starmer's government
The IfG team analysed the appointments Keir Starmer made after Labour won the 2024 general election.
Delivering a general practice estate that is fit for purpose
The next government must urgently modernise old and cramped NHS GP buildings.
A preventative approach to public services
The next government must focus on prevention or risk worse public services and higher taxes.
Three things we learned from Rishi Sunak’s Liaison Committee appearance
How did the prime minister fare at his grilling by a committee of parliament’s senior MPs?